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Multilevel selection 2: Estimating the genetic parameters determining inheritance and response to selection.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2007
Bijma Piter, Muir William M, Ellen Esther D, Wolf Jason B, Van Arendonk Johan A M
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Interactions among individuals are universal, both in animals and in plants and in natural as well as domestic populations. Understanding the consequences of these interactions for the evolution of populations by either natural or artificial selection requires knowledge of the heritable components underlying them. Here we present statistical methodology to estimate the genetic parameters determining response to...
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